diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 60bfa8c..a21b5e1 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 name = "SparseArraysBase"
 uuid = "0d5efcca-f356-4864-8770-e1ed8d78f208"
 authors = ["ITensor developers <support@itensor.org> and contributors"]
-version = "0.5.0"
+version = "0.5.1"
 
 [deps]
 Accessors = "7d9f7c33-5ae7-4f3b-8dc6-eff91059b697"
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Random = "9a3f8284-a2c9-5f02-9a11-845980a1fd5c"
 Accessors = "0.1.41"
 Aqua = "0.8.9"
 ArrayLayouts = "1.11.0"
-DerivableInterfaces = "0.3.7"
+DerivableInterfaces = "0.4"
 Dictionaries = "0.4.3"
 FillArrays = "1.13.0"
 LinearAlgebra = "1.10"
diff --git a/src/abstractsparsearray.jl b/src/abstractsparsearray.jl
index ecb56bf..35a1bf9 100644
--- a/src/abstractsparsearray.jl
+++ b/src/abstractsparsearray.jl
@@ -27,6 +27,14 @@ using LinearAlgebra: LinearAlgebra
 # should go.
 @derive AnyAbstractSparseArray AbstractArrayOps
 
+using DerivableInterfaces.Concatenate: concatenate
+# We overload `Base._cat` instead of `Base.cat` since it
+# is friendlier for invalidations/compile times, see
+# https://github.com/ITensor/SparseArraysBase.jl/issues/25.
+function Base._cat(dims, a::AnyAbstractSparseArray...)
+  return concatenate(dims, a...)
+end
+
 function Base.replace_in_print_matrix(
   a::AnyAbstractSparseVecOrMat, i::Integer, j::Integer, s::AbstractString
 )
diff --git a/test/Project.toml b/test/Project.toml
index 9b46e23..c8abf0a 100644
--- a/test/Project.toml
+++ b/test/Project.toml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Test = "8dfed614-e22c-5e08-85e1-65c5234f0b40"
 Adapt = "4.2.0"
 Aqua = "0.8.11"
 ArrayLayouts = "1.11.1"
-DerivableInterfaces = "0.3.17"
+DerivableInterfaces = "0.4"
 Dictionaries = "0.4.4"
 JLArrays = "0.2.0"
 LinearAlgebra = "<0.0.1, 1"